"Writing... is an act of faith: I believe it's also an act of hope, the hope that things can get better than they are."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“If the thought ever comes to you that everything that you have thought about God is mistaken and that there is no God, do not be dismayed. It happens to many people. But do not think that the source of your unbelief is that there is no God.”
“Nevertheless, I don't hesitate to say that elections in Germany are decided in the center, not on the fringes and not in the accumulation of minority interests.”
“In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the fiercest, boldest, most politic, and most ambitious savages to whom the American forest has ever given birth.”

Source : Francis Parkman, David Levin (1983). “France and England in North America: Pioneers of France in the New World. The Jesuits of North America in the seventeenth century. La Salle and the discovery of the Great West. The old régime in Canada”, p.286, Library of America
“The message of a leopard-print jumpsuit is clear: 'I am a huntress who delights in eating the offal of her prey.'”

Source : Simon Doonan (2008). “Eccentric Glamour: Creating an Insanely More Fabulous You”, p.61, Simon and Schuster
“I got very well acquainted with Joe Stalin, and I like old Joe! He is a decent fellow. But Joe is a prisoner of the Politburo.”
“When people look at a photograph, they believe it... My photographs crawl along that edge. I document the world, but from my own biased point of view.”
“I started writing an album on flights to Africa and Brazil, but it was crazy because I left the notebook on the plane. It had seven or eight songs in it. After that, I'm not writing any more songs on notebooks - and I keep my Blackberry close!”

Source : "How Estelle headed to the US and scored her first No. 1". Daily Mirror Interview, www.mirror.co.uk. June 5, 2008.
“Remember that, lad, if you never remember anything else. We all touch each other's lives, for better or for worse. So say the things you have to say to people while you still have the chance.”

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